0 If you drain something, you remove the liquid from it, usually by pouring it away or allowing it to flow away, and if something drains, liquid flows away or out of it:
1 to make someone very tired:
The long journey completely drained me.
3 a pipe or channel that is used to carry away waste matter and water from a building, or an opening in the road that rain water can flow down:
She accidentally dropped her ring down a drain in the road.
There was an unpleasant smell coming from the drains.
5 something that uses more of your energy, money, or time than you want to give:
7 a pipe or channel that carries away waste water or other liquids:
8 something that uses too much of your energy, money, or time:
9 completely wasted or spoiled:
That's just the sound of the water draining out of the sink.
You don't need to drain the rice, you see. It has absorbed all the water.
If there isn't a hole in the bottom of the plant pot, the water can't drain out.
Leaves are clogging up the drain.
When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers.
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